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Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi|Marco Dente|Antonio Salamanca

Apollo tending the flocks of Admetus, Apollo seated holding a lyre and flanked by a cow and a dog, a serpent winding around a dead tree at right

ca. 1515–27
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11.4 × 18.2 cm (4.5 × 7.2 in)

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